FORMAL
WRITING OUTLINE
The traditional outline has three sections:
introduction, body, and conclusion.
The basic model looks like this:
Title
- Introduction
- The background
- The thesis statement
- Body
- First major category of support
- Supporting detail
- Supporting detail
- Supporting detail
- Second major category of support
- Supporting detail
- Supporting detail
- Third major category of support
- Supporting detail
- Supporting detail
- Conclusion
- Review of the major categories of support
- The answer, solution, or final option